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VietNamNet Bridge – The virus surveillance system of BKAV, a well known
network security solution provider in Vietnam, said that about 64.2 million
computers in Vietnam were infected with viruses in 2011, which meant that
175,000 computers got viruses every day.
BKAV said that 39,000 new viruses appeared in 2011, while W32.Sality.PE is
believed to be the most widespread with 4.2 million computers getting infected
with this kind of virus. Especially, BKAV has warned that it is not only the
biggest culprit in 2011, but may also affect millions of computers in the time
to come.
However, there is a strange thing about this kind of virus. Though having
affected to millions of computers, BKAV’s experts, after a long period of
supervising the virus, said that the virus has been sitting quiet, while it has
not activated destructive activities, such as stealing or destroying data.
According to the experts, it may happen that an organization, or even a nation
backs the virus network, while it is still unclear about their intention.
Therefore, BKAV has advised computer users nationwide to scan their computers
with the anti-virus software products using the technologies allowing to kill
metamorphic viruses.
2011 was also the year that witnessed a lot of attacks on Internet. Every month,
BKAV received more than 30 reports about fraudulence via Yahoo Messenger. Not
only Yahoo, but Facebook, the biggest social network in the world, has also
become the tool for hackers to make the corrupt use to make dwindling.
In late 2011, BKAV recognized the appearance of the viruses which, for the first
time, were spread out through Facebook chat. Besides, a lot of cases, where
crimes acted as famous persons to make dwindling on the environment of social
networks such as Facebook or Twitter, have been reported.
2250 websites of Vietnamese agencies and enterprises were hacked in 2011. This
means that over 100 websites were hacked every month. However, this is just the
tip of the iceberg. There might be a lot of quiet attacks that the victims did
not know about them.
In 2011, when giving support to some agencies, whose websites were hacked, BKAV
discovered that some viruses had been installed at the systems for a long time
already. The viruses carried out undercover activities by stealing important
documents, and then sending back to the hackers’ servers.
Vietnam is the fertile land for hackers
Vietnam is one of the countries which have the fastest Internet growth rate in
the world. According to the Ministry of Information and Communication, the
number of Internet subscribers in Vietnam has reached 31 million, or 35 percent
of the population.
Most of the enterprises and organizations have network systems and websites to
introduce their products and popularize their brands and to serve online
payment.
“Though this should be seen as the good news, this could be the favorable
environment for hackers to attack,” Nguyen Viet The, Director of the Informatics
Agency of the Ministry of Public Security, noted.
The Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team VNCERT has found out that 54
percent of organizations in Vietnam do not have standardized procedures to
respond to the attacks. This shows that Vietnamese institutions prove to be in
passive voice when dealing with Internet crimes.
The said that botnet has become a service on sale which has been offered to sell
on Internet. The tools for DoS attacks have been offered with decreasing prices.
BKAV has said that the year 2012 may witness the boom of viruses on mobile
phones, while metamorphic viruses will continue to spread.
Source: TBVTSG
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